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It is nice to see cross pollination of technology across companies. Also, with much faster 3D technology, the Radeon HD 7000 series may actually be faster with GLAMOR as opposed to EXA, unlike the Intel hardware.

I guess a kludge is better than nothing. But if they are going down this road then it sounds like there isn't any hope for proper support any where in the near future. We allready know the next X release will do nothing for SI so it will be at least next year before the HD7xxx cards are good for any thing beyond sending email and simple web pages.

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Where have you been living? They like to bash AMD here and laud intel for making slow gpu's and nvidia for not having any f/oss drivers.

While I am really happy AMD supports oss more than they used to, the fact is that intel are the biggest contributors to the graphics stack of any company and their oss drivers for the last two gens of hardware are pretty awesome (though it looks like ivb might still be a bit messed up). In fact their gpus are pretty decent, even compared to low end discrete, and no solution, proprietary or not, matches the efficiency of quick sync (which has been open sourced). Lastly, it seems as though when it comes to open source drivers, intel is able to make up for relatively anemic hardware with performance that is better than almost anything else.

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It works with older radeons as well (although it requires shaderful hardware, so r300 and newer). You just have to set the AccelMethod option in the device section of your xorg.conf to glamor to try it.